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...Hutchinson's school days were spent at Gresham's School, Holt, a few miles from the Norfolk coast, and his holidays in Cumberland amongst the lakes. In such ideal surroundings it is hard to conceive where he learnt Socialism, but a Socialist he is; the fact constantly appears in his speeches and conversation. He is always running away on a bicycle or in a Ford to address mass meetings in the Midlands, or to stir up the lazy villagers of Cambridgeshire to take a greater interest in the running of their country...
...Ideal. "A college education ought to fit a man or woman to be content in any occupation, because it enlarges the capacity for the enjoyment of the intellectual and spiritual side of life. It seems to me that a man with a college education and an artisan's income would be almost in an ideal position...
...carries with it one serious danger, however, if applied without discrimination. It may attempt to combine the independence of the English ideal with the thoroughness of the German ideal; that is, American universities which adopt the tutorial system must not try to use the English tutors with the idea of securing the effectiveness of the German seminar The result of this would be to raise the general level of the educational standard but to put the exceptional man at a disadvantage...
...seems, however, that these at tempts at selection are headed towards the proper ideal, a standard of quality. On the other hand, suggestions such as appear in the New York Times editorial reprinted in this column, aim toward the reverse ideal of quantity. Part-time instruction, an excellent device in over-crowded high-schools, appears of doubtful service in college work...
...expressed in dialog, so little in incident. Still, the dialog is crisp, frequently eloquent; the play intelligent. Alice Brady gives a splendid interpretation of the cynical, disillusioned wife. To John Halliday is due even greater credit for his performance as the perfectly uninterested husband, devoted to his emotional ideal of love...